Writing studio movies is the best job in the world... it's awesome.

Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. Its a nice feeling.

Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.

Before any movie of yours gets made, it will be vetted by the studio's marketing department. So, you do have to answer the question: Who is your movie for?

Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a half of a credit on maybe one movie, or none. So they're all theoretical.

I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.

I never thought I would write the way that I write for the studios now, which is like, not little novels, but be someone who literally is more like, you know, sometimes I guess we describe, we're more Salieri than Mozart.